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Author : Martial
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Epigrams of Martial written by Martial and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martial
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Epigrams from Martial written by Martial and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martial Martial
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365117056
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Epigrams of Martial (Classic Reprint) written by Martial Martial and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Epigrams of Martial The literature of imperial Rome has powerfully influenced the civilization of the Western world; and, amid the vast changes of our social system, still continues to maintain its high place in the republic of letters. This is due partly to the grandeur of the people by whom the language was spoken, but more so to the illustrious writers who wedded it to intellectual creations that must ever be models for study and admiration. Among these writers, Martial stands as the first Epigrammatist, not only of his own, but of every succeeding age. The bent of his genius seems to have lain entirely in this direction. Everything he penned, whether begging a favour, satirizing a fault, writing an inscription, or paying a compliment, was an epigram. The word epigram originally signified, as its etymology implies, nothing more than an inscription. But in the development which it received in the progress of literature, and especially at the hands of Martial, it assumed an entirely new character, and may be de fined as the concentration of satire and pointed invective in a short poem. One idea is selected, and to this all the powers of the poet's mind are directed, and made to converge as to a point. To the gracefulness of the Greek epigram the Romans super added shrewdness and an acute observation of human nature: the shafts of Martial are pointed by the same sarcastic feeling which inspired the Epodes of Horace, and the Satires of Juvenal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : R. T. Bridge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266619550
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Select Epigrams of Martial written by R. T. Bridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Epigrams of Martial: Spectaculorum Liber and Books I-Vi This edition of selected epigrams from the first six books Of Martial is intended for the use of upper forms in schools. There are two reasons why Martial should be read in these forms. In the first place, his epigrams belong to a distinct species of literature, characteristically Roman both in form and matter. Secondly, Martial throws a valuable and instructive light on the social life of Rome in the first century of our era. If these are the two reasons why boys still at school should read Martial, yet it is probably true that they should read him rapidly and without the rigid attention to detail which is necessary in studying the best classical writers. It has been our aim, there fore, to keep our notes concise, and not to fill the place of the dictionary and the atlas, but, as far as possible, to make clear the thought and point of each epigram. With this end in view a short abstract of the meaning is prefixed to the notes on each poem, but few attempts have been made to supply ready-made translation. In the Introduction has been added a connected account of certain features of Roman life which are constantly referred to in the epigrams; this seemed better than writing short and scattered notes on the passages concerned. We have also given a biographical index of some of the proper names occurring in the text, and we hope that our general index may be of use in finding references in the poet to the many features of Roman life on which he touches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : R. T. Bridge
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484462709
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Select Epigrams of Martial written by R. T. Bridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Epigrams of Martial: Books VII-XII Tms edition of selected epigrams from the last six books of Martial is intended for the use of upper forms in schools. There are two reasons why Martial should be read in these forms. In the first place, his epigrams belong to a distinct species of literature, characteristically Roman both in form and matter. Secondly, Martial throws a valuable and instructive light on the social life of Rome in the first century of our era. If these are the two reasons why boys still at school should read Martial, yet it is probably true that they should read him rapidly and without the rigid attention to detail which is necessary in studying the best classical writers. It has been our aim, there fore, to keep our notes concise, and not to fill the place of the dictionary and the atlas, but, as far as possible, to make clear the thought and point of each epigram. With this end in view a short abstract of the meaning is prefixed to the notes on each poem, but few attempts have been made to supply ready-made translation. In the Introduction has been added a connected account of certain features of Roman life which are constantly referred to in the epigrams; this seemed better than writing short and scattered notes on the passages concerned. We have also given a biographical index of some of the proper names occurring in the text, and we hope that our general index may be of use in finding references in the poet to the many features of Roman life on which he touches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Martial
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521555395
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Martial: Select Epigrams written by Martial and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The epigrams included in the selection are organised under various heads, e.g. Martial and poetry, sexual mores, satirical pieces. A very full introduction deals with such topics as the prejudices and predilections of his audience which conditioned Martial's choice of subject matter, Martial's language, the structure and style of the epigrams, the epigrammatic tradition and Martial's creative engagement with it. The detailed commentary is suitable for use with undergraduates and is distinguished by its focus on social history as well as literary interpretation.
Author : Edwin Post
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260456236
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Selected Epigrams of Martial written by Edwin Post and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Epigrams of Martial: Edited, With Introduction and Notes This volume is offered to the public with the belief that the selections herein found are sufficient in number and variety to illustrate fully the epigram as a form of literature and to afford valuable collateral information to those interested in Roman private life. However, in selecting the epigrams a wider inter est in the subject matter has been continually kept in mind and the text has been so annotated as to make the book service able in an ordinary reading course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : W. T. Webb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483866652
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Selected Epigrams of Martial written by W. T. Webb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Epigrams of Martial: For English Readers A few words on Roman domestic life and manners in Martial's day may be added in illustration of our author, whose writings themselves provide us with an almost inexhaustible fund of information on this topic. And perhaps what strikes him most who looks back upon these old times, is the truth ofthat somewhat trite phrase of Shakspere's, in its ordinary acceptation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Martial Martial
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331781038
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Epigrams of Martial written by Martial Martial and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose To the gracefulness of the Greek epigram the Bomans super added shrewdness and an acute observation of human nature: the shatts of Martial are pointed by the same sarcastic feeling which ins ired the Epodes 0 Homes, and the Satires ofjuvenal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Martial Martial
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528549691
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Select Epigrams of Martial (Classic Reprint) written by Martial Martial and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Epigrams of Martial Formance was undertaken for amufe ment; and it is hoped, the revifal and publication will not be thought entirely Vanity. If 1t may fometimes excite mirth 1n the reader that is not the 'p1incipal am and intention: which is to make him wifer, by exhibiting a picture of life by a mafierly hand. What {hall I call it? It is a man flation or imitation of Martial 5 or both. Not of all his epigrams5 that would be un pardonable. Many a1e full of obfcenity, beneath a man: others of adulation, unb'e Coming a Roman and great numbers con 'cerning his own writings are omitted, for fear of cloying the reader. Some few will not admit of atranflation and not a few are too trifling to defe1 ve it; and of this laft fort, perhaps I might have been for given, if I had 1etrenched mo1e. What I have {elected are generally moral or in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440633282
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Martial's Epigrams written by Garry Wills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across the ages. For the first time, readers can enjoy an English translation of these rhymes that does not sacrifice the cleverly constructed effects of Martial's short and shapely thrusts. Martial's Epigrams "bespeaks a great scholar at play" (The New York Times Book Review), makes for addictive reading, and is a perfect, if naughty, gift. Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.
Author : Martial
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Select epigrams of Martial: Spectaculorum liber and Books I-VI written by Martial and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martial
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Selected Epigrams of Martial written by Martial and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Fitzgerald
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226252558
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Martial written by William Fitzgerald and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman poet’s world—and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late first century CE—when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social life of the Roman elite—Martial published his poems in a series of books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in both Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s study will delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates an ingenious witticism.
Author : J. H. Wescott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265262580
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book One Hundred and Twenty Epigrams of Martial (Classic Reprint) written by J. H. Wescott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Hundred and Twenty Epigrams of Martial In preparing this little volume I have made free use, among other books, of the complete edition by F ried lander, Leipsic, 1886, and of the Selections edited by Stephenson, London 1887, Morgan, London, 1888, and Paley and Stone, London, 1892. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Martial Martial
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483815247
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Epigrams of Martial written by Martial Martial and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose; Each Accompanied by One or More Verse Translations, From the Words of English Poets, and Various Other Sources The plan of the present edition has been to give every Epigram hitherto ascribed to Martial, in English prose, accompanied, as far as they could be found, by metrical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Martial
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199645450
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Epigrams written by Martial and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the pretensions, addictions, and cruelties of its inhabitants with perfect comic timing and killer punchlines. Social climers and sex-offenders, rogue traders and two-faced preachers - all are subject to his forensic annihilations and often foul-mouthed verses. Packed with incident and detail, Martial's epigrams bring Rome vividly to life in all its variety; biting satire rubs alongside tender friendship, lust for life beside sorrow for loss. Gossipy, clever, and above all entertaining, they express amusement as much as indigtation at the vices they expose.
